The Universal Dictionary

It is intended for a full-text search and it significantly expands the possibilities of working with lexical items from the Russian glossary of LingvoUniversal. Contains usage examples, synonyms, and antonyms.

mouthful

['mauθful]

сущ.

полный рот(чего-л.)

кусок; глоток; небольшое количество(еды)

разг.труднопроизносимое слово или фраза

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mouthful

['maǔθfǔl]

n

кусок; глоток

разг.

her name is quite a mouthful to pronounce — у неё имя - язык сломаешь

now that's a bit of a mouthful — теперь это будет трудно произнести

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Examples from texts

The spell was broken as the Frenchman began to pour the wine, mouthful by mouthful, into the other glasses as he resumed his sermon. “This is our first series of tastings for this vintage, and you, our friends from Asia, are the first to taste.

“And yet another of you must take care of Dobbin, making sure his clumsy self does no more damage to the green, but letting him crop, perchance, a mouthful or two of the longer grass if it can be found.

He swallowed, or rather snapped up, every mouthful, too soon and too fast; and he looked sideways here and there while he ate, as if he thought there was danger in every direction of somebody's coming to take the pie away.